They told Peggy to make it sound like the firm where she wanted to work, so… "Not SCDP?"

"And maybe now we have an inkling of what Trudy saw in her father's secret box."

I don't know about drops in a bucket, but I do know there is a tear. And in the tear are all the tears in the world.

To me the Pete-is-to-Don thing was pretty well summed up at the end of the one opening scene with Timmy Heinz Ketchup at Pete's apartment. As he's leaving, Don looks around and and says "nice apartment." Pete thanks him and tells him "it's available for his use" when he's in the city. To which Don replies,…

"Don Draper this episode reminded me of Tony Soprano in the later seasons."

"You and Joan are BOTH mistaken.  Sleeping with Herb was not "for nothing"…"

The differences between Bert and Harry are not lost me and I disdain Harry as much as anyone. But Bert's take, for example, on pimping out Joan was as repugnant as anyone's.

"Harry's not Randian, he's just selfish."
Meh, that's a distinction without a difference. Harry may lack any sort of awareness of where his economics place him as a matter of history or philosophy, but he's not completely wrong to see an echo of Bert in himself. Bert is the coffee shop Randian ideal; Harry is its…

Where Harry is concerned, I thought the fight made for a pretty interesting extension of his assertion that Bert "was him" and Bert's reply that he never was.

I think the show is working quite a bit better than H. Maddas seems to, but I agree with the wish that they'd trust their audience a little more and sloooowww down. Give us a little more tone and atmosphere and a little less plot. More Mad Men, less Homeland. I mean they've established some really strong thematic…

I'd go a step further regarding the Adam-Nat part of this. Adam runs to Hannah not just because she needs him and Nat doesn't, but because Nat isn't going to tolerate his abuse. I don't think his actions reflect unambiguously well on him at all.